EL-RUFAI TO REMAIN IN CUSTODY AS COURT ADJOURNS BAIL APPLICATION TO APRIL 14.(PHOTO).
El-Rufai to remain in custody as court adjourns bail application to April 14 Justice Rilwanu Aikawa of a Federal High Court in Kaduna has adjourned the hearing of the bail application filed by former Kaduna State governor, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, to April 14th. The bail application of the former governor came up before the court today. April 1. The court adjourned the case after listening to arguments from both the defence and prosecution El-Rufai was arraigned by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on a 10-count charge bordering on alleged conversion of public property and money laundering. He pleaded not guilty to all the charges. The court ordered that he remain in ICPC custody pending the hearing of his bail application on the fixed date. The former governor arrived at the court premises around 9:00 a.m. in a black Hilux vehicle, accompanied by DSS officials.
In 1624,Ana Nzinga inherited rule of Ndongo,a state to the east of Luanda in modern day Angola,populated primarily by Mbundu peoples.At that moment,the kingdom was under attack from both portuguese as well as neighnoring African aggressors.Nzinga realized thar,to remain viable,Ndongo had to reposition it self as an intermediary rather than a supply zone in the slave trade .To achieve this,she allied Ndongo with portugal,simutaneously acquiring a partner in its fight against its African enemies and ending portuguese slave raiding in the kingdom.Ana Nzinga's baptism,with the portuguese colonial governor serving as godfather,sealed this relationship.By 1626,however,Portugal had betrayed Ndongo,and Nzinga was forced to flee with her people further west,where they found a new state at Matamba,well beyond the reach of the portuguese.To bolster Matamba's martial power,Nzinga offered sanctuary to runaway slaves and portuguese trained African soldiers and adopted a form of military organization known as Kilombo,in which youths renounced family ties and were raised communally in militias.She also formented rebellion within Ndongo itself,which was now governed indirectly by the Portuguese through a puppel ruler.Nzinga found an ally in the Netherlands,which seized Luanda for its own merchantile purposes in 1641.Their combined forces were insufficient to drive the Portuguese out of Angola,howeverand after Luanda was reclaimed by the Portuguese,Nzinga was again forced to retreat to Matamba.From this point on,Nzinga focused on developing Matamba as a trading power by capitalizing on its position as the gate way to the central African interior.By the time of her death in 1661,Matamba was a formidable commercial state that dealt with the portuguese colony on an equal footing.Nzinga,who reconverted to before her death at the age of eighty one {81},became a sensation in Europe following the 1769 publication of Jean Louis Castilhon's colorful biography Zingha,Reine d'Angola,in Paris.
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